Amaury Hayat, permanent researcher at CERMICS, received the EECI PhD Award 2019. This prize of the European Embedded Control Institute recognizes since 2007 the best PhD work in Europe in the domain of control theory for complex systems. Amaury Hayat was distinguished for his work on the stabilization of partial differential equations modeling of hyperbolic type, such as trafic flow equations or the Saint Venant equation for shallow water flows. He did his PhD at Sorbonne Université, in collaboration with the Saint-Venant laboratory of Ecole des Ponts.